Hunting High And Low (album) Chords

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:10:15 +0100
From: Matteo Rocco 
Subject: CRD: Hunting_h&l-Album.crd by a-ha


ALBUM NAME: Hunting high and low
GROUP: a-ha
WORDS AND MUSIC:
  Take on me - words by Morten Harket,Mags,Pal Waaktaar | music by Pal
               Waaktaar
  Train of Thought - words and music by Pal Waaktaar
  Hunting high and low - words and music by Pal Waaktaar
  The blue Sky - words and music by Pal Waaktaar
  Living a boy's adventure tale - words by Pal Waaktaar,Morten Harket |
                                  music by Pal Waaktaar
  The sun always shines on TV - words and music by Pal Waaktaar
  And you tell me - words and music by Pal Waaktaar
  Love is reason - words by Pal Waaktaar,Mags | music by Mags
  Dream myself alive - words by Pal Waaktaar | music by Mags
  Here I stand and face the rain - words and music by Pal Waaktaar

MY NAME: Matteo Rocco
MY E-MAIL: xs@xnet.it


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There may be some hints like these:

Rhthym    |  |.        |:lenght=1 |~=0.5 |~~=0.25 |.=1.5 d=2 d=2 d.=3 o=4
Chords    C  A-/B | D  harmony/bass melody  | here means end of measure
Lyrics  yooohoo!!
Choir  (yeah!!)
Notes    c   a         single notes of the lead singer
Choir    g   e         second voice

TAKE ON ME
----------

N.C | N.C. | N.C. | N.C. |

B-9 | B-9 | B-9 | B-9 |

B- | B- | B-9 | B-9 |

B- | E | a | D C#- |  B- | E         | a     | D C#- | B- | E | B- | E
                              Pa ppa  paa pa

 B-          E  a                 D        C#-      B-        E     a
Talking away    I don't know what  I'm to say I'll say it anyway today

          D      C#-     B-         E   F#-                         D
isn't my day to find you   shying away     I'll be coming for your love OK

 a   C#-/G#   F#-  D            a    C#-/G# F#-   D
Take on      me....            Take me      on......
                 (take on me)                   (take on me)

a    C#-/G#  F#-  D            a    C#-/G#  D  E
I'll be     gone   in a day or  two...

    B-           E    a             D         C#-    B-        E    a
So needless to say at odds and ends  but I'm me    stumbling away slowly

               D       C#-  B-         E F#-                     D
learning that life is OK   say after me    it's no better to be safe than

       a   C#-/G#   F#-  D            a    C#-/G# F#-   D
sorry Take on      me....            Take me      on......
                       (take on me)                   (take on me)

a     C#-/G# F#-  D            a    C#-/G#  D  E
I'll be     gone    in a day or two...

C#- | C#- | G | G | C#- | C#- | G | G | B- | B- | E | E |

N.C. | N.C. | N.C. | N.C.

B- | E | a | D C#- |

B- | E | a | D C#- |

B- | E | B- | E          B-              E     a            D
                Oh the things that you say yeh is it life or

          C#-    B-        E        a
just to play my worries away you're all the things

      D      C#-     B-            E  F#-                    D
I've got to remember  you shying away    I'll be coming for you anyway

 a   C#-/G#   F#- D         a    C#-/G# F#- D
Take on      me...         Take me      on......
                (take on me)              (take on me)

a    C#-/G#  F#- D       a   C#-/G#  F#-  D           a    C#-/G# F#-  D
I'll be     gone   in a.. day......
                       (take on      me...)         (take me      on...)
                                       ((Take on me))               ((Take

       a    C#-/G#  F#- D          a   C#-/G# F#-  D
       I'll be     gone...   in a.. day...
...         on     me..)         (take me     on..)
on me))              ((take on me)              ((take on me))

  a   C#-/G#  F#-  D            a   C#-/G# F#-  D           a   C#-/G#
(take on     me....)          (take me     on.....)       (take on
                ((take on me))               ((take on me))


 F#-  D
me....)

   ((take on me)) ...

TRAIN OF THOUGHT
----------------

N.C./E | N.C./E | N.C./E | N.C./E

N.C./E | N.C./E | N.C./E | N.C./E

B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E

B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E

    N.C./E                             D        a     D/E | D/E
He likes to have the morning paper's crossword solved    hey

 N.C./E                      D            a                   D/E | D/E
Words go up words come down forwards backwards twisted 'round     hey

     N.C./E                         D        a
He grabs a pile of letters From a small suitcase

                                                      D
       E-                        D              C#- | C#-
Disappears into an office It's another working day

D         B-7  C#-7                  D      E
and his thou.....ghts are full of strangers

      B-7  C#-7          D      E
corridors      of naked lights    And his

 B-7  C#-7              D      E
mind      once full of reason     Now there's

                              D.    |
B-7   C#-7               D  | D     D9/E   F#-              D       a
mo...re   than meets the eye    Now a   stranger's face he carries with him

| a     (E-)                          D      a          D/E | D/E
     He likes a bit of reading On the subway home  ooh oooh ooh

  (E-)                                  D       a   D/E  | D/E
A distant radio's whistling tunes That nobody knows     hm

   (E-)                       D            a
At home a house awaits him he unlocks the door

                                                                D
         E-                                   D           C#- | C#-
Thinking once there was a sea here but there never was a door

D         B-7  C#-7                 D      E
And his thou....ghts are full of strangers

        B-7  C#-7              D   E
And his eyes      too numb to see

     B-7    C#-7            D      E
And nothing       that he knows of

                                      D.   |
     B-7  C#-7                  D   | D   D9/E |  F#-    D          a  | a
And no........where where he's been      wa..s    ever quite like this

 E- | (E-) | E- | (E-) | E- | (E-) | E- | (E-) |
yeah!

B-/E | C#-/E   | D/E | C#-/E    | B-/E | C#-/E  | G | G a
            he!             oh oh           oh oh       and his

  B-7  C#-7                  D      E
thou.....ghts are full of strangers

      B-7  C#-7          D      E
corridors      of naked lights    And his

 B-7  C#-7              D      E
mind      once full of reason     Now there's

                               D.     |
B-7   C#-7                D  | D      D9/E  F#-              D       a
mo...re    than meets the eye    Now  a  stranger's face he carries with

 | a | B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E |
him


B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E
                          and at

 B-/E  C#-/E               D/E     C#-/E
hea.....rt he's full of strangers        dodging

B-/E C#-/E                D/E   C#-/E
on         his train of thought        train of

  B-/E    | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E | B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E |
thought

B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E |

B-/E | C#-/E | D/E | C#-/E | ...


HUNTING HIGH AND LOW
--------------------

D..    |~-D-|~
a-     a-9     a-         F
Here I am         and within the reach of

    D..       |~  D..     |~-D-|~
    F-        G   a-      a-9     a-             F
my hand she's    sound asleep        and she's sweeter now

          Db       C-                             Ab                  G
than the wildest dream could have seen her and I watch her slipping away

        D           D       o        D   D   o    o
        F           G       a-4      a-  G   F7+  D-
But I know I'll be hunting high and low     hi...gh

           a-7                      D-   E-
There's no end to the lengths I'll go   to

         a-4      a-  G   F7+  D-
hunting high and low     hi....gh

                                    o   o
           C           E-7          D-  /G
there's no end to the lenghts I'll go       to

 o---------d    d
 a-            /G         F                   F-
find her again     upon this my dreams are depending

   a-            /B     F                     Dd        C-
through the dark     I sense the pounding of her heart next

    /Bb             Ab                   G
to mine she's the sweetest love I could find

       F            G       a-4      a-  G6/9   F7+  D-
so I guess I'll be hunting high and low        hi...gh

           a-7                      D-   E-
There's no end to the lengths I'll go   to

 a-4      a-  G6/9   F7+  D-
high and low        hi....gh

                              o   o      o    D  D      D D     o
         C           E-7      D-  /G     a- | a- a-/G | F F/E | D-7
do you know what it means to love    you

C | C/B | a- | E- | E- | F |

                  o--------d  d
G  _|             a-          G       F7+                 F
     I'm hunting high and low    and now she's telling me

              o----d  d
              a-      G/B  F | D- | C- | Bb | Ab | G |
she's got to go away

     F(9)       G       a-4      a-  G6/9  F7+           D-
I'll always be hunting high and low        only for     you
                                                   (and now she's telling

          |.     D        D  D-|~        D    D     D   |  |
          a-7   /B       /C  A7/C#       D-   C7/E  E-  F  G
watch me tea.....ring myself         to piec........es hunting
me)

 a-4      a- G6/9    F7+     D-            C           E-7
high and low       uoh hi....gh there's no end to the lenghts

             o-----o         o                           o----
      D-7    E-7             F       G                   a-
I'll go   to...      oohohohoo  for you I'll be hunting high

-----d  d  d  d     d  _|
        G  F  C/E | D- a
and low


BLUE SKY
--------

N.C. | N.C. | N.C. | N.C.

         |~    D   |.
  F      a-5+  a-  a-4
blue sky          blue sky

         |~    D   |.                 |~    D   |.
  F      a-5+  a-  a-4        F       A-5+  a-  a-4
blue sky          blue sky  blue sky

      F                                   a-
Oh I find it hard to breathe as life just eats away

        F                                a-      C
at the faces that surround me they look tired today

     D-                       Bb          a-              D
the lady at my table doesn't want me here I just want to talk to her

               F7+               F/G                   E-
but would she laugh at my accent      and make fun of me

       F7+                   F/G                      E- | F | E- | F |
oh it doesn't seem like this     blue sky's here for me

                                     a-
There are no girls in here as far as I can see

F                           a-      C
only pinup posters looking down at me

          D-                           Bb
watching paper cups of coffee growing cold before my eyes

a-                                 D                   F7+
all the things I see that make me realize I'm in this big world

            F/G                  E-        F7+
without you       nothing to my name oh I never knew that

F/G                         F       a-5+  a-      a-4
    blue sky meant such pain
                         (blue sky         blue sky)

  F      a-5+  a-        a-4
blue sky          blue sky


  F      a-5+  a-       a-4    F       | A-5+  a-  a-4 | B- | B- |
blue sky         blue sky    blue sky

                                  D          |   |
     F                            a-         a-9 a-
I'm dying to be different in the coffee shop

                                                    |      |
      F                                    a-7      C13    C9
I've lived on borrowed strengh now my supplies are cut though

                                    D.          |
    D-                              Bb          Bb4+
I'm older than my looks and older than my years

     D.                  |
     a-                  a-4     D9
I'm too young to take on   my   deepest fears

     F7+                     F/G                    E-
oh I used to be confused but     now I just don't know since you

                        |       D.                      |    |
 F7+                    F(9)/G  F/G                     /F   a-   G6
left I've been watching            blue skies come and go           oh
                                                          (blue sky...)

           F7+                    F/G                       F      C_|
since you left I've been watching      blue skies come and go
                                                         (blue sky..)

LIVING A BOY'S ADVENTURE TALE
-----------------------------


Aaaahaahaaahahaaaa


D7+ E | F#- | B- C#- | D  E   | D7+ E | F#- | B- C#- | D E |
                            Aaaahaahaaahahaa

D7+ E | F#- | B- C#- | D E | D7+ E | F#- | B- C#- | D E |

      a                 /E            /a                   F#-
I've fixed my dwelling for the night lights in pairs come passing by

  D7+        | D7+ | D7+ |
where I hide

   a                 /E         /a             F#-           D7+
I need some time now on my own leave my loneliness alone to lick my wounds

D7+ | D7+ | A7+ |

 C#-/G#    /E       C#/F            D               D-
night has found me just in time to help me close my eyes one more time

 D         D      o           D  D       D        D
 D7+       E      F#-         B- C#-     D        E
living a boy's adventure tale        in so many ways

 D7+       E      F#-         B- C#-      D       E
living a boy's adventure tale        for so many days I'm

 D7+       E      F#-         B-         C#- D       E
living a boy's adventure tale   can't escape   if I wanted to

 D7+       E      F#-         B-           C#-        D        E
living a boy's adventure tale   I may be dreaming but I feel awake

a                    /E            /a                 F#-          (D7+) |
  I've been lost in so many places   seeking love in so many faces

(D7+) | (D7+) |

    a                                               /E     F#-
a change of weather the rain pours down my head in hands pressed to

                   D.   |
      D7+  | D7+ | N.C. a
the ground

      C#-/G#  C#/F           D           D-
and where           am I supposed to go now

 D7+       E      F#-         B- C#-     D        E
living a boy's adventure tale        in so many ways

 D7+       E      F#-         B-    C#-     D      E
living a boy's adventure tale    haaa    haaaa   haaha

 D7+       E      F#-         B- C#-     D       E
living a boy's adventure tale         a voice I hear

 D7+       E      F#-         B-            C#-  D      E
living a boy's adventure tale    singing a lullaby for me

o     D    o   D  o   D   o   D   o  D   o  D   o D
A/D   /C#  /B  a  /D  /C# /B  /C# a  /E  a  /E  a /E

a A7+/G# | D7+/F# E |

 D7+       E      F#-         B- C#-    D        E
living a boy's adventure tale        because of you

 D7+       E      F#-         B-    C#-     D_|            E_|
living a boy's adventure tale           oh you know it's true  I'm
                                                               F#

 D7+       E      F#-